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The bankruptcy court in Delaware sided with four circuits by directing the U.S. Trustee to give refunds for overpayment of fees that were not uniform throughout the country.

Contesting the election of a chapter 7 trustee isn’t like defending a fee application, which Baker Botts held to be noncompensable.

Delaware’s Judge Craig Goldblatt makes a ‘common-sense judgment’ in deciding whether to allow a prepetition lawsuit to proceed in state court.

Bankruptcy Judge Shannon says that the liquidating trust was not debtor’s counsel’s former client.

Judge Goldblatt of Delaware wrote an opinion where the answer was self-evident but there was no authority on point.

Peculiar circumstance compelled a Delaware judge to depart from his usual approval of ‘opt-out’ plans that grant non-debtor releases.

Upholding confirmation of the Boy Scouts’ chapter 11 plan, the district judge in Delaware disagreed with his counterpart in New York who found no statutory power to impose non-consensual, non-debtor third-party releases.

If you want a prejudgment asset freeze, ask for equitable relief and the recovery of specific property, Judge Goldblatt says.

Although deposed as debtor in possession, the Subchapter V debtor retains the sole power to file a chapter 11 plan.

Sticking to her guns, Bankruptcy Judge Mary Walrath rules that the solvent-debtor exception was abrogated by the adoption of the Bankruptcy Code, but certifies a direct appeal to the Court of Appeals.